Today's Google Trends: 0.02 Percent Chance of Death

Today's Google Trends: 0.02 Percent Chance of Death

If we are what we Google, then
Google Hot Trends
—an hourly rundown of search terms "that experience sudden surges in popularity"—is the Web's best cultural barometer. Here's a sampling of today's top searches. (Rankings on Hot Trends list current as of 9 a.m.)

No. 24: "death risk rankings."
Carnegie Mellon researchers
launched a new Web site today
that compiles public data from the United States and Europe to compare mortality risks. Visitors to the site can compare the risk of dying as a 22-year-old female in New Jersey, for example, versus the risk of dying as a 22-year-old female in France. (The results indicate it's a good time to move to Europe.) They found that while men have a much higher annual death risk than women, women in their 30s and 40s have a much higher risk of getting cancer than men. Visit
Deathriskrankings.com
to find out your chances of dying.

No. 98: "Pentacene."
This month's issue of
Science
(out today) contains
the first published image
of individual atoms within a molecule. IBM scientists were able to capture the image by using an atomic force microscope. The molecule they chose to examine, Pentacene, is a crystal structure known for its properties as an organic semiconductor. Watch a video interview with the scientists
here
.